COIN requires years. Was the waste of money in Afghanistan worth teaching our soldiers compassion on the ground as we try to figure out how to pay our bills? Drones have replaced COIN and massive bombing. Unfortunately, we're not going to be the only ones with Drones and we're going to get paid back.

Will McCain be outraged that others will do as we do, not as we say, - and call for massive bombing should we be hit? He learned compassion about torture, but his mindset on American superiority is firmly entrenched.

@MrObvious@outsider2011 He doesn't understand that bombing doesn't turn enemies into friends, Marshall Plans do. It's something a fella named Jesus was trying to tell us 2,000 years ago, but the people running around in his name these days act more like the Romans did.